hi guys, im having a bit of trouble getting rid of my bootloop on my Velocity G4. i tried to root it using HTC Vivid All In One kit, as i was led to believe it was compatible. I have tried using the same program to flash the stock Kernel but still stuck in Bootloop. please advise, thanks guys
You do realize that this has been answered COUNTLESS times and if you read the forum instead of just posting your question... You would have your question answered and your phone fixed?
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thanks
rignfool said:
You do realize that this has been answered COUNTLESS times and if you read the forum instead of just posting your question... You would have your question answered and your phone fixed?
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thanks for your most unhelpful post, you are wrong to think i havent already looked, otherwise i wouldnt have known to try flashing a stock kernel. im looking for a velocity specific help, which i cant find.
munkysee123 said:
thanks for your most unhelpful post, you are wrong to think i havent already looked, otherwise i wouldnt have known to try flashing a stock kernel. im looking for a velocity specific help, which i cant find.
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relock your bootloader and run your phones ruu that will take you back to out of box stock you can downloaded it from htc
aaarg
jerrycoffman45 said:
relock your bootloader and run your phones ruu that will take you back to out of box stock you can downloaded it from htc
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ok m still having no luck at all here, trying to find the ruu for telstra velocity 4g seems to be an impossible task. if there is anyone that can break this down into a proper guide for a Telstra Velocity 4g, that would be awesome.
dont just assume i know what you mean, although i have rooted a phone before, this htc one is rather complicated. i really need to get my phone back up and running as soon aspossible, thanks.
Go to the development section and look for the thread called(Rom) holiday shipped Rom collection and you will find it there to lock your bootloader the fastboot command is fastboot OEM lock
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Hey mate I was in the same boat coming from the galaxy s2, Htc don't make it as easy as Samsung! Where are you up to ie have you got your unlock code from htcdev and got all the drivers/files from there to flash? If so go here http://www.filefactory.com/file/c41....09_34.20.701040.19_release_246698_signed.exe and download this ruu to your computer. After this as jerry said relock your bootloader by (connecting via usb, pull battery, replace, power+volume down, and then go to fastboot) go to the folder on your computer where you saved your unlock code and fastboot ect from the htcdev unlock and press shift and right click (mouse ) and open up a command prompt, here type fastboot OEM lock to relock your bootloader. After this run the ruu you downloaded earlier and follow the prompts on your computer to get back to stock telstra ics. Make you have plenty of battery for this as if you run out in the ruu your f*@ked!
Just to add the usual disclaimer of don't blame me if you don't get this right, i just want to help a fellow velocity user get the same enjoyment from his phone that I have!
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Just to add the usual disclaimer of don't blame me if you don't get this right, i just want to help a fellow velocity user get the same enjoyment from his phone that I have!
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thanks, once i get home from work today ill give it a bash and ill let you know. cheers mate
No worries at all give me a pm if you have any issues and I'll try to help if I can
How did it all work out with this and the custom Rom you chose?
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How did it all work out with this and the custom Rom you chose?
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Hey man, yeah it all worked out good, haven't chosen a custom Rom as such yet, will explore that when I have more time, but thanks for all your help, its much appreciated
Good to hear! Don't get scared off by this mate, same thing happened to me the first time.
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Hi,
I am thinking about rooting my HTC Raider (Bell) X710a. I am, however, unable to find a simple enough method.
I came across this tool for the HTC Vivid (ATT) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498003 And was wondering if I could use the tool on my HTC Raider.
If Not, Is there a super simple way to root my phone? I am really new to smartphones and am also fairly new to technology in general
Any Help would be greatly appreciated and thanked!
That's the method I used. I have the raider on rogers. I'm pretty sure it works for yours to. You have to unlock the bootloader first tho.
By the way that method is very simple. It doesn't get any easier in my opinion. Watch his video and follow the steps.
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well when i did it it really didnt root it but unlock bootloader and flash the wildchild recovery when i go into hboot it says S-On so im guessing i didnt root it at all with the tool but i was able to flash a custom recoveyr
Kurrytacos said:
well when i did it it really didnt root it but unlock bootloader and flash the wildchild recovery when i go into hboot it says S-On so im guessing i didnt root it at all with the tool but i was able to flash a custom recoveyr
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It won't say s-off even if you root the phone. You have to take certain steps to get s-off which is being worked on now. You should still be able to root your phone through wild child recovery. The option is there.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416836&page=31
Go here, a video shows you how to root using the recovery.
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That's the method I used. I have the raider on rogers. I'm pretty sure it works for yours to. You have to unlock the bootloader first tho.
By the way that method is very simple. It doesn't get any easier in my opinion. Watch his video and follow the steps.
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First of all, Thanks.
How to unlock bootloader? Only option on HTC Dev is For Vivid or other supported phones... Please help....!
I'm pretty sure you just click "Other Device" at the bottom.
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Mihir1997 said:
First of all, Thanks.
How to unlock bootloader? Only option on HTC Dev is For Vivid or other supported phones... Please help....!
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Choose the vivid. It's the same phone. Do not click other device
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to Mr Patchy Patch...
sir perhaps you'd be able to help me out since i got the phone from rogers as well. so i did try to follow this tool and watch the video, but to no avail, still im not able to root my htc raider
now the video doesnt seem like a step by step tutorial for me so i just did exactly wht he was sayin. now due to prev attemt before using this tool, i was only successful with unlocking my bootloader; so i skiped the part where i have to unlock it.
i was able to flash the CWM 5.5.0.4 and used the backup/restore to make sure if anything happen i'd be bale to restore my phone. after that i went straight to permroot, and all i got on the promt command was some adb stuff out of date. i assumed maybe i had to flash kernel first to make it work, but thats the part where i got stock on the htc white screen logo. im not sure what i missed; maybe you could help me out and give me a step by step procedure...
i could really use some help
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to Mr Patchy Patch...
sir perhaps you'd be able to help me out since i got the phone from rogers as well. so i did try to follow this tool and watch the video, but to no avail, still im not able to root my htc raider
now the video doesnt seem like a step by step tutorial for me so i just did exactly wht he was sayin. now due to prev attemt before using this tool, i was only successful with unlocking my bootloader; so i skiped the part where i have to unlock it.
i was able to flash the CWM 5.5.0.4 and used the backup/restore to make sure if anything happen i'd be bale to restore my phone. after that i went straight to permroot, and all i got on the promt command was some adb stuff out of date. i assumed maybe i had to flash kernel first to make it work, but thats the part where i got stock on the htc white screen logo. im not sure what i missed; maybe you could help me out and give me a step by step procedure...
i could really use some help
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Hey pm me if you have not successfully unlocked and rooted
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Hey guys I'm trying to root my wife's Phone I've done some steps to root it I already i unlocked it. I have clock mod but when I boot it up I don't see super user at all. I have a epic 4g touch which it little more easy then doing this device. So if any one cab go with step by step how to do it I will appreciate it alot. I don't know if I post this in the wrong section sorry about that
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It does not get any easier than this method http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1498003
Thanks dude what Rom are u using
Epic 4g Touch S II
I am actually using the stock ics Rom on the HTC Vivid I think it's perfect and I get great battery life just root it delete all that bloatware
noooooob
ok am doing something wrong. i have unlocked the boot loader and flashed one of the recovery from the tool kit. want to root for wifi capabilities and so forth but when i click perm root in the tool it takes me to recovery and am lost from there. i have rooted other htc devices and this is by fat the toughest for me for some reason. any help would be appreciated. also i think i have bricked a vivid trying to do this and now just goes to white htc screen. can still access the boot loader so will try the ruu. did warranty exchange and am trying again.
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ok am doing something wrong. i have unlocked the boot loader and flashed one of the recovery from the tool kit. want to root for wifi capabilities and so forth but when i click perm root in the tool it takes me to recovery and am lost from there. i have rooted other htc devices and this is by fat the toughest for me for some reason. any help would be appreciated. also i think i have bricked a vivid trying to do this and now just goes to white htc screen. can still access the boot loader so will try the ruu. did warranty exchange and am trying again.
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Fastboot flash wcx recovery. Boot to wcx recovery. Then find the rooting option. It should work.
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Thanks must not be seeing it as option to root. Will give another go after work. And also what is meant by "s-off" and "s-on" and how does it effect function of devise post root?
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Thanks must not be seeing it as option to root. Will give another go after work. And also what is meant by "s-off" and "s-on" and how does it effect function of devise post root?
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Security off or on. As far as I know, it lets you flash kernels from recovery instead of having to flash in fastboot mode with adb.
And my noobness gets worse.....what's the dif between a kernal and a Rom?
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And my noobness gets worse.....what's the dif between a kernal and a Rom?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=ROM-VS-Kernel
If you don't know by now.
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My HTC Velocity is unlocked, s-off and has lived a good life of forever shifting ROM's however a mandate has come down from above that they are rolling out a new antivirus package at work that detects all these shenanigans and reports it back, is there any way, now that I have s-off to relock the boot-loader without it saying "re-locked" and just saying locked like it did originally?
I'm not sure if that would actually be detected I have a feeling it only really detects rooting, however but it would be a nicety to get it back to totally stock.
Difficult answer to find with the associated keywords, sorry if this is a repost I did attempt to search for it.
I could be wrong, but as far as I know you should just have to relock your bootloader with the file you should have saved somewhere that let you originally unlock it and then run the RUU that's floating around here somewhere. Just make sure you download the correct RUU for what you want (the official ICS one is like 400 something MBs I think).
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Monkeymannnn said:
I could be wrong, but as far as I know you should just have to relock your bootloader with the file you should have saved somewhere that let you originally unlock it and then run the RUU that's floating around here somewhere. Just make sure you download the correct RUU for what you want (the official ICS one is like 400 something MBs I think).
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That is correct relock bootloader, then flash correct RUU for your device..
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OP does not want the boot loader to say re-locked.
AFAIK there is no way to do this. I have re-locked mine a few times and it always says re-locked.
Thanks, as above I have relocked many times, bummer can't get rid of re-lock
davidcampbell said:
Thanks, as above I have relocked many times, bummer can't get rid of re-lock
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You can get rid of the re-lock....
Check out this post I did it myself an it works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1630569
Thanks esloan, I will take a crack at that :laugh:
Awesome thanks, was hoping for a way to put it back to stock totally in case of a warrant claim etc.
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the method mentioned above worked perfectly btw
Are there any custom ROMS for salsa which is rooted but S-oFF?>?
To install custom-ROMs you need S-Off or an unlocked Bootloader. What does your bootloader show (which version, s-on/s-off, **locked**/**unlocked**)?
Those ROMs come often with Root but sometimes you have to install Root access manually.
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Are there any custom ROMS for salsa which is rooted but S-oFF?>?
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theschneidi said:
To install custom-ROMs you need S-Off or an unlocked Bootloader. What does your bootloader show (which version, s-on/s-off, **locked**/**unlocked**)?
Those ROMs come often with Root but sometimes you have to install Root access manually.
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ROM's do not come with S-OFF, you make it S-OFF which isn't a good idea personally, i know this from experience. as i am S-OFF and have unlocked bootloader.
theschneidi is right check what u have first then respond
I have unlocked the bootloader from htcdev and installed Clockwork mod recovery and also rooted my phone but it is S-OFF so can I install any custom ROM on it??
raghavaggsss said:
I have unlocked the bootloader from htcdev and installed Clockwork mod recovery and also rooted my phone but it is S-OFF so can I install any custom ROM on it??
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if it was s-off anyway u didn't need bootloader lol but hey, either way u can install any rom u want. U are one of only a small few with both.
Im sorry i wrote wrong it was S-on with unlocked bootloader
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Im sorry i wrote wrong it was S-on with unlocked bootloader
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ok lol as long as u have unlocked the bootloader your fine to flash any rom u want. S-OFF is granted only by the XTC Clip.
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ok lol as long as u have unlocked the bootloader your fine to flash any rom u want. S-OFF is granted only by the XTC Clip.
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Can you provide me the links to custom salsa ROMS??are you sure that i can flash any rom with S-ON?
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Can you provide me the links to custom salsa ROMS??are you sure that i can flash any rom with S-ON?
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NO because that would be infringing the XDA rules(Search function or check other Salsa rooms)., and YES I'm sure or we wouldn't be sitting here with a custom rom and huge internal space.
My HTC Salsa touchpad becomes insensitive. some keys doesnt work occasionally.
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NO because that would be infringing the XDA rules(Search function or check other Salsa rooms)., and YES I'm sure or we wouldn't be sitting here with a custom rom and huge internal space.
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Hello,
I have HTC Salsa bough around 2.5 years back, got Android 2.3.3 (No update further)
recently it started giving problem, once i unlock screen and try to type some keys on touchpad, it doesnt sense the input. Its irritating sometimes when I need to do urgent call.
I observed its mostly extreme left side keys or extreme right side keys that doesnt work.
Any help guys ?? Appreciate your help.
Regards
Pardev
pardev said:
Hello,
I have HTC Salsa bough around 2.5 years back, got Android 2.3.3 (No update further)
recently it started giving problem, once i unlock screen and try to type some keys on touchpad, it doesnt sense the input. Its irritating sometimes when I need to do urgent call.
I observed its mostly extreme left side keys or extreme right side keys that doesnt work.
Any help guys ?? Appreciate your help.
Regards
Pardev
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full wipe, clear out factory reset. normally corrects it.
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full wipe, clear out factory reset. normally corrects it.
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I tried factory restore, it didnt hep. I was checking if I could flash the phone.
Can you please guide me as I am a beginner, I dont know what needs to be done exactly.
Thanks a lot
Pardev
pardev said:
I tried factory restore, it didnt hep. I was checking if I could flash the phone.
Can you please guide me as I am a beginner, I dont know what needs to be done exactly.
Thanks a lot
Pardev
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Being fair, i request you go back into our general section and search for it.
If you don't know what root is, i'd suggest you find out before venturing any further.
But to flash u have to unlock your bootloader, and then flash a recovery program. Lots of guides in the main sections, use search if lost.
The guides were made by me and designed/written so a kid can follow it. If you get stuck in some places i can help you. But if you haven't a clue, read first then attempt it.
I'm always around, so if your desperate PM me or Email me via my profile. I am on Hangouts(Talk) also using [email protected]
pardev said:
Hello,
I have HTC Salsa bough around 2.5 years back, got Android 2.3.3 (No update further)
recently it started giving problem, once i unlock screen and try to type some keys on touchpad, it doesnt sense the input. Its irritating sometimes when I need to do urgent call.
I observed its mostly extreme left side keys or extreme right side keys that doesnt work.
Any help guys ?? Appreciate your help.
Regards
Pardev
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Is your phone s-off? and rooted?
kashttl said:
Is your phone s-off? and rooted?
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neither lol
BigBearEvo said:
Being fair, i request you go back into our general section and search for it.
If you don't know what root is, i'd suggest you find out before venturing any further.
But to flash u have to unlock your bootloader, and then flash a recovery program. Lots of guides in the main sections, use search if lost.
The guides were made by me and designed/written so a kid can follow it. If you get stuck in some places i can help you. But if you haven't a clue, read first then attempt it.
I'm always around, so if your desperate PM me or Email me via my profile. I am on Hangouts(Talk) also using [email protected]
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Thanks a lot man !!
I will explore more before trying to flash it.
Regds,
Pardev
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neither lol
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Lol, xD!
Hi - so I recently installed AR HD 11.5, but I'm wondering now that I've done that is there any compelling reason to re-lock the bootloader? What about un-rooting... any reason to do that after I've done what I needed to whilst being rooted?
Finally, a couple of noobish questions... 1) what's the difference between unlocking the bootloader & S-ON/S-OFF? I guess I was thinking they were one and the same thing, but some of the reading I've done imply they are in fact different things. If someone could please provide a brief explanation I would appreciate it. 2) why are some people concerned about being able to flash the latest OTA update if they have a custom ROM installed? I mean, won't any custom ROM pretty quickly catch up or even surpass the latest available OTA update? For example, that's one of the reasons I chose to go with AR HD because it's already using 4.2.2 instead of 4.1.2 that came with my phone.
Thanks in advance
Drvylyne said:
Hi - so I recently installed AR HD 11.5, but I'm wondering now that I've done that is there any compelling reason to re-lock the bootloader? What about un-rooting... any reason to do that after I've done what I needed to whilst being rooted?
Finally, a couple of noobish questions... 1) what's the difference between unlocking the bootloader & S-ON/S-OFF? I guess I was thinking they were one and the same thing, but some of the reading I've done imply they are in fact different things. If someone could please provide a brief explanation I would appreciate it. 2) why are some people concerned about being able to flash the latest OTA update if they have a custom ROM installed? I mean, won't any custom ROM pretty quickly catch up or even surpass the latest available OTA update? For example, that's one of the reasons I chose to go with AR HD because it's already using 4.2.2 instead of 4.1.2 that came with my phone.
Thanks in advance
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1. sOFF permits various additional commands like fastboot flash etc.
In short you get even more freedom
Search on google :- ''why do we need to sOFF'' there is a link on ARHD blog that explains this in detail
2. The answer to your 2nd question is very simple.
To get back to full stock- as if you havent done anything to it(no root sOFF unlock etc.) So as to gain warrenty
Hit thanks if i helped you
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prunzzz said:
1. sOFF permits various additional commands like fastboot flash etc.
In short you get even more freedom
Search on google :- ''why do we need to sOFF'' there is a link on ARHD blog that explains this in detail
2. The answer to your 2nd question is very simple.
To get back to full stock- as if you havent done anything to it(no root sOFF unlock etc.) So as to gain warrenty
Hit thanks if i helped you
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I did some more reading on S-Off as you suggested and it doesn't sound necessary or really worthwhile to me. As long as I can put a custom ROM on, as I've already done, then I don't see the need for S-Off as it sounds like it's just inviting trouble if you don't know what you're doing (which I admittedly don't).
Also, I don't see why anyone would ever want to go back to full stock. I read that even if you unlock and put a custom ROM on your phone that it is still covered under warranty and that it's up to the manufacturer and/or carrier to prove that the act of doing one of those things is what actually caused the phone to malfunction thus requiring warranty repair.
Drvylyne said:
I did some more reading on S-Off as you suggested and it doesn't sound necessary or really worthwhile to me. As long as I can put a custom ROM on, as I've already done, then I don't see the need for S-Off as it sounds like it's just inviting trouble if you don't know what you're doing (which I admittedly don't).
Also, I don't see why anyone would ever want to go back to full stock. I read that even if you unlock and put a custom ROM on your phone that it is still covered under warranty and that it's up to the manufacturer and/or carrier to prove that the act of doing one of those things is what actually caused the phone to malfunction thus requiring warranty repair.
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90% of people have no need for s off...since HTC let us install kernels via recovery ...now barely any people need s off... I think in Europe it doesn't matter if you unlocked and etc..you're still covered... Here in the states ...they can be a holes
I used S-Off to convert my AT&T One software to Developer edition software, then returned it to S-On. Now running totally stock developer version software, eliminates AT&T bloat and hoping I get updates a bit sooner than I would have with AT&T version.
With S-OFF you can flash kernels from the phone. S-ON you would have to do it maunally via fastboot.
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Drvylyne said:
I did some more reading on S-Off as you suggested and it doesn't sound necessary or really worthwhile to me. As long as I can put a custom ROM on, as I've already done, then I don't see the need for S-Off as it sounds like it's just inviting trouble if you don't know what you're doing (which I admittedly don't).
Also, I don't see why anyone would ever want to go back to full stock. I read that even if you unlock and put a custom ROM on your phone that it is still covered under warranty and that it's up to the manufacturer and/or carrier to prove that the act of doing one of those things is what actually caused the phone to malfunction thus requiring warranty repair.
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So you got the answer of your 1st question
Now the answer for 2nd one is very simple, though what you said about warrenty is right,
But still many times its always better to have a full stock for warrenty or replacement (by "better" i mean you dont have to prove anything to the service center)
Hit THANKS if i helped you
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squabbi said:
With S-OFF you can flash kernels from the phone. S-ON you would have to do it maunally via fastboot.
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Wrong I believe with updated HTC dev for the one...HTC unlocked that for us
Basically don't S off if you don't know what it does. It bypasses security checks and allows access to all phone partitions that if applyed wrong could brick your phone. Just flashing roms doesn't require s off
Example of mistake
Fastboot flash hboot recovery.img
This would brick your phone if you had s off, s on would deny write access!!
IF YOUR recive HELP FROM SOMEONE BE GRATEFUL AND HIT THANKS!!!
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a box of kittens said:
Wrong I believe with updated HTC dev for the one...HTC unlocked that for us
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Oh sorry. I was basing that off the One X. I S-OFF'd my One because I thought that without S-OFF I couldn't flash a kernel.
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